Street-sprinkler



(No Model.)

D. MURRAY.

STREET SPRINKLER.

No. 354.515. la'tented Dec. 14, 1886.

W 0 d x e H H Hww 5 Q c4 nedsfe UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID MURRAY, OF MILWAUKEE, \VISGONSIN.

STREET-SPRINKLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,515, dated December14, 1886.

Application filed June 11, 1886. Serial No. 204,828. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, DAVID MURRAY, ofMil- Waukee, in the county ofMilwaukee and State of \Visconsin, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Street-Sprinklers; and I do hereby declare the followingto be afull, clear, and exact description of said invention, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters or figures ofreference marked thereon,whieh form a part of this specification.

The objects of my invention and the means by which those objects aresecured will be undcrstood from the following description, aided by areference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is anelevation of a street'sprinkler embodying my improvement-s, parts beingbroken away to show other parts more fully. Fig. 2 is a view of thewater-discharging mechanism, a part in eross'section. Fig. 3 is avertical crosssection on line as of Fig. 1. Figs. 4 and 5 are details.

The tank A is supported on atruck or wagon in the usual manner, and isprovided with a foot-board, B, rigid to the tank and extending forwardlytherefrom, on which a drivers seat, 0, is erected and supported.

In the top of the tank A there is an aperture adapted for taking inwater, which aperture is provided with a horizontally swinging orrotating tubular bent pipe, D, near the lower and inner end of which isan annular collar, E, rigid thereon, which collar rests upon the top ofthe tank or a plate on the tank about the aperture,and is within andbeneath a chambered keeper, F, which keeper is bolted rigidly to thetank and holds the pipe D steadily in position, but permits it to swinground horizontally freely, as before stated. To the free outer end ofthe pipe D the water-intaking hose G is connected.

Located centrally beneath the tank are two opposite outwardly anddownwardly extend ing water-discharging pipes, H II. The outer ends ofthese pipes H H terminate in a cap, S, preferably hinged to the pipe andprovided with a curved or rounded and perforated outer end, and theupper inner end of each terminates in a throat, I, leading into the tankA' and adapted to be closed by a valve, J. Each 7 of the valves J isprovided with an upwardlylever is pivoted centrally in the foot-board B,I

its outer end being turned upwardly through the foot-board and beingadapted to receive actuating force thereon from the drivers foot.

It will be seen that by pressing down on the front end of the lever Othe rear end of that lever and the outer end of arm N willbe raised,whereby, through the rock-shaft M, the lower end of the arm L and thetop of the arm Jwill be swung inwardly, and the valve J thereby opened,permitting the water to be discharged into the pipe H. The mechanism foroperating each of the valves J J is entirely separate from the mechanismfor operating the other one, the arms L, rock-shafts M, arms N, andlevers 0 being in duplicate.

The pipes H H are each provided with a series of discharging-orifices,which orifices, along so much of the pipe as is within the front andrear line of the wheels, are in the under side of the pipe, and are soarranged as to discharge the water downwardly directly toward theground, and not against the wheels or other parts of the truck; andalong the pipe outside of the wheels the orifices are in the rear sideof the pipe and in the outside of its curved outer end, being soarranged as to throw the water outwardly away from the truck, the entirearrangement of orifices being such as to discharge and distribute thewater evenly over the entire surface of the ground within the utmostlimits of the waterdischarge, but in such manner as not to throw thewater against the wheels or other parts of the truck, or outwardly awayfrom the truck, except only near the outer ends of the discharge-pipes.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a street-sprinkler, a tank, A, supported 2. In a street-sprinkler,a centrally-located perforated discharging-pipe, H, provided with athereto hinged end cap having a curved outer I 5 end and rear sideprovided with horizontal discharging-orifices, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I affix n1 y signature in presence of twowitnesses.

DAVID MURRAY.

Witnesses:

O. T. BENEDICT, E. R. INMAN.

